Photosweeper 3 review: Sorts out the image duplicates in your Mac’s media libraries and folders<article>
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<p>To judge by email, Macworld readers have a lot of digital cruft. Many of you are like me, migrating from computer to computer, sometimes after system or disk drive disasters. This can leave you with a lot of duplicates of files of all kind, but images tend to be the most problematic.</p><p>Between migration and multiple imports and copying for particular purposes, you could have several copies of the same image or scene, and sometimes they aren’t identical: one may be lower resolution, one may have been edited, and some might taken in quick succession but only one is good! Burst mode can lead to a lot of extra pictures, depending on your settings.</p><p>
Photosweeper 3 ($10 on the
App Store is a well-updated version of software designed to solve this problem with a high degree of customization and specificity. Some other software, especially disk uncluttering packages, include image-duplication scanning. But with Photosweeper’s modest cost and laser focus, it’s worth the price. Depending on how many systems you have and photos you take, you might wind up using it every few months. The developers promise eternal free upgrades to new releases, which is a bonus.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3195031/photography/photosweeper-3-review-sorts-out-the-image-duplicates-in-your-macs-media-libraries-and-folders.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Photosweeper 3 review: Sorts out the image duplicates in your Mac’s media libraries and folders
